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After 21 million bitcoins miners will be paid certain transaction fees but I need your guidance for clarifying following confusions:-
Currently solving a block gives you 25 bitcoins but what is the
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Could the 1MB block size limit be replaced with a growth-dependent limit? From what I have read (here, for example) the 1MB limit is to prevent spamming of the blockchain. And if/when Bitcoin becomes ...

I have been reading about the LiteCoin, and how it uses a hashing function (scrypt) that is not able to be mined by ASICs. As a side-effect of this, it has been said that people with GPUs will move ...

As described in the protocol specification bitcoin nodes respond to the inv command, which queries a node's knowledge of one or more objects, with an inventory vector. According to the bitcoin wiki, ...

the last days I have thinking about the bitcoins and the technical issues that can have this currency, I am a computer science guy, with many interest in the global economy.
The first question that I ...

My friend has a rather large store of bitcoins that he bought about a month ago. I think it makes sense for him to hedge his recent gains, since the price run up looks like a bubble.
What is a high ...

A week ago Kim Dotcom posted that a Bitcoin Credit Card would be something that he would be keen to support. Apart from Bitcurex, which is a different system and slightly lacking in credability and ...